REGINA — The University of Regina is being urged to cancel a lecture by a celebrated Canadian poet who has worked with an Indigenous woman’s killer, but the school says doing so would go against its principles. George Elliott Clarke was invited to deliver the Woodrow Lloyd Lecture on Jan. 23. Brown and his friend Alex Ternowetsky were convicted of manslaughter in the beating death of Pamela George near the Regina airport in 1995. Longman said she and other Indigenous women urged the Woodrow Lloyd committee late last year to consider the harm Clarke’s lecture may cause. Pulling all George Elliott Clarke books from our shelves.

Source: Huffington Post January 02, 2020 22:18 UTC